Vitamin D deficiency linked with poor outcomes in patients with shoulder instability

ATLANTA — Vitamin D deficiency was associated with decreased bone density, more severe bone defects and poor overall outcomes in patients with recurrent traumatic shoulder instability, according to study results presented here.
“Vitamin D is not just a question of bone. It’s important for soft tissue [and] the brain. It is acting everywhere in the body,” Dominique M. Rouleau, MD said in her presentation at the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Annual Meeting. “We know that if you have very low vitamin D, your mortality is increased.”
Rouleau and colleagues

ATLANTA — Vitamin D deficiency was associated with decreased bone density, more severe bone defects and poor overall outcomes in patients with recurrent traumatic shoulder instability, according to study results presented here.
“Vitamin D is not just a question of bone. It’s important for soft tissue [and] the brain. It is acting everywhere in the body,” Dominique M. Rouleau, MD said in her presentation at the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Annual Meeting. “We know that if you have very low vitamin D, your mortality is increased.”
Rouleau and colleagues